Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID Number |
CSP 15-103 |
Artist |
Red Star, Wendy |
Title |
Apsáalooke Roses |
Date |
2015 |
Medium |
Lithograph with archival pigment ink photograph |
Dimensions (H x W x D) |
18" x 26" |
Credit Line |
Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts Archive |
Culture |
North American / United States / Montana / Crow |
Collection |
Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts |
Object Name |
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Description |
Two photographs of young girls wearing Native American attire on top of a patterned background. There is a border of red and orange stripes. The background is light blue with darker blue splotches. On top of that are roses and rosebuds in red. |
Exhibit Label Copy |
Wendy Red Star was born in Billings, Montana, just outside of the Crow Indian reservation where she grew up in a multicultural family. Red Star's mother is of Irish descent, her father is Crow, and her older sister is Korean. Red Star's work is fundamentally about perspective, particularly her own, as she gazes back at a world that often views Native Americans, both past and present, superficially. In Apsáalooke Roses, Red Star pairs a photograph of her daughter Beatrice (left) with herself at about the same age, dressed to dance at Crow Fair, a powwow and gathering that draws nearly 50,000 people annually to the Northern Plains. Red Star, the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, earned a BFA from Montana State University and an MFA from University of California Los Angeles, both in sculpture. |